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Chapter 7
INTERLIS grafisch darstellen

If you have already modelled by means of INTERLIS data, you can create a graphic representation of the existing INTERLIS-model file by using the UML-Editors. In order to convert the INTERLIS-Model file into a UML-Modell, use the function Tools/INTERLIS/Import... (Fig. 7.1). You will perceive a file selection dialog, where you can select the INTERLIS-model file (*.ili) that has to be converted.


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Figure 7.1Function Tools/INTERLIS/Import....


If errors occur during the conversion, e.g. if the INTERLIS-model file should contain a syntactic error or if the INTERLIS-file cannot be found, these errors will appear in the log pane of the UML-editor (Fig. 7.2).


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Figure 7.2Log pane after import of a INTERLIS-model file.


After a conversion the data model can be further treated with the usual application tools. The navigation pane on the left side of the main window of the UML-editor will let you attain a certain element of the model as fast as possible.

In order to view further properties of an element, e.g. parameters or its description, the element must be marked and the dialog for specification must be opened via the context-menu (right mouse button). Thereafter properties of the element, such as its description, can be dealt with in the specification dialog (Fig. 3.7).

During conversion a diagram is automatically generated for each INTERLIS-topic; this diagram will contain all classes of the topic. In general such automatically generated diagrams need further treatment, because the software cannot recognize the importance of a class. When dealing with a topic with many classes, always generate several diagrams and represent only one important class and its direct neighbouring classes per diagram. In order to have more free space in a survey diagram, you can suppress representation of attributes for classes ([8], Kap. 4.1.2).

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